Ape 749

#BAYC 749 | An ape looking for more ape friends...

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

openai just dropped gpt-5.4 and it finally fixes the most annoying part of agentic workflows

watching a model confidently write two hundred lines of code just to realize it misunderstood the very first step is mental torture

gpt-5.4 now gives you an upfront plan of its thinking before it actually executes the task

it shows you the exact path it wants to take

if you see it drifting toward a hallucination, you can literally interrupt it mid-response and adjust the course while it is still working

you catch the mistake before it wastes tokens generating the wrong output

getting the exact result you need without spending an hour going back and forth with the machine is a massive leverage point

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

being grown in a lab just to play a 90s shooter is honestly a better career trajectory than most corporate jobs right now

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

dumping a two hour zoom recording into an llm so it can tell me if the client is actually going to buy or just wasting my time

forcing a supercomputer to watch middle management meetings is the peak of human innovation

gemini 1.5 pro takes raw video files now so you don't even need to generate a transcript first

just drag the mp4 directly into the prompt box and tell it to extract the action items and timeline

it processes the actual video frames and audio and spits out the summary in thirty seconds

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

https://t.co/OWcp9sMhBc

[Ape 749 @bayc749]

It’s lit!

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

spent 6 days with seedance 2.0 and the future of filmmaking is terrifying

not because the tech is bad. because it's too good.

we're entering the 'everyone can cook but nobody knows what tastes good' era

here's what 6 days of testing actually revealed:

1. generation quality is insane. like genuinely better than most youtube videos

2. cost is cheap

3. barrier to entry = dead. 14 year olds are making feature film quality shots in their bedrooms

4. taste barrier = alive and well. 90% of what people are making looks like a tech demo not a story

5. the bottleneck shifted from 'can you afford to make it' to 'do you know what's worth making'

we democratized the camera. now everyone's a photographer but instagram is still 99% mid.

we democratized music production. now everyone's a producer but spotify has 100k uploads daily and you've heard 6 of them.

same thing is about to happen to film. except worse because making a 90 second video that doesn't suck requires more taste than a 3 minute beat.

the winners won't be the people with access to seedance. it'll be the people who spent 10 years studying why Fincher holds a shot for 8 seconds instead of 6.

technology collapsed the skill gap. taste is the only moat left.

what's the first thing you're making with it?

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

why film school kids are cooked:

they spent $40k learning premiere pro right before AI made editing free

but here's what's actually happening:

> runway charges $12/month. a good premise is still priceless
> technical execution became instant. narrative structure still takes years to learn
> 10,000 people can make a perfect render. 10 people can make you feel something
> agencies hiring "ai artists" in 2026 will be hiring "storytellers who use ai" in 2027

the skill isn't prompting. it's knowing what emotion to aim for before you open the tool

tools are abundant. stories are rare. choose accordingly

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

been messing around with creating product images lately

pretty happy with how this one turned out

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

ai didn't make me more productive. it made me realize 80% of my work was performative bullshit i can now automate...

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

my girlfriend asked what I do for work and I said 'I talk to robots' and she said 'so you're unemployed'

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

the gap between 'I use ai' and 'I'm good at ai' is just knowing when to shut up and let it cook

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

my ai agent just rejected my own prompt because it said the tone wasn't on brand. i created something that fired me

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

pairing ai + discord is a productivity cheat code

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

apple put 128GB of unified memory in the m5 max

which is exactly enough to run the models that openai charges you $200/month to access

let's do the math nobody's doing:

chatgpt pro: $200/month = $2400/year
m5 max macbook: $4000 one time

breakeven point: 20 months

after that you own the infrastructure and openai owns your credit card number

but here's the actually interesting part:

with 614 GB/s memory bandwidth you're not just running one model. you're running multiple models simultaneously while editing 8K video and your fans aren't even loud

that's not a laptop anymore. that's a data center that fits in a coffee shop

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

if you miss a week of ai news it feels like you missed an entire month

this space moves fast af

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

if u arent using ai to summarize articles on x youre wasting your time

theres 0 reason to read 15 paragraphs of fluff when u can pull the exact 3 points that actually matter in two seconds

get the summary. find the edge. get back to building.

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

anthropic told the pentagon they won't let claude run autonomous weapons and got labeled a national security risk

getting blacklisted by the government because you refused to build skynet is the ultimate founder flex

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

getting banned by the pentagon for refusing to build mass surveillance tech is the hardest marketing campaign of all time

claude just hit number one on the app store strictly by saying no to the military

if you are jumping ship over the defense contracts, anthropic basically built a bridge for you

just ask chatgpt to dump your entire memory context into a single code block, paste it into claude, and it picks up exactly where you left off

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

spent 30 days testing ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and a dozen other tools everyone's charging you $20-$200/month for.

kept a spreadsheet. tracked time saved per task. actual numbers.

the free tier of one tool outperformed everything I paid for.

not because it's 'better'

because 95% of what you're doing doesn't need $200/month. it needs a better prompt.

you've been buying tools when you should've been buying skills.

[JAMIE @jamiebxne]

the actual aliens are going to land and their first question will be about the flight logs